Program for the Future A Summit & Workshop on Collective Intelligence 2008-12-09 The Commons as a collective intelligence meta-innovation Mike Linksvayer Creative Commons Photo by asadal · Licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · http://flickr.com/photos/68242677@N00/2117153416/

Program for the Future

A Summit & Workshop on Collective Intelligence

2008-12-09

The Commons as a collective intelligence meta-innovation

Mike Linksvayer

Creative Commons

Creative Commons .ORG Nonprofit organization, launched to public December 2002 HQ and ccLearn in San Francisco Science Commons division at MIT ~60 international jurisdiction projects, coordinated from Berlin Foundation, corporate, and individual funding Born at Stanford, supported by Silicon Valley

Nonprofit organization, launched to public December 2002

HQ and ccLearn in San Francisco

Science Commons division at MIT

~60 international jurisdiction projects, coordinated from Berlin

Foundation, corporate, and individual funding

Born at Stanford, supported by Silicon Valley

Enabling Reasonable Copyright Space between ignoring copyright and ignoring fair use & public good Legal and technical tools enabling a “Some Rights Reserved” model Like “free software” or “open source” for content/media But with more restrictive options Media is more diverse and at least a decade(?) behind software

Space between ignoring copyright and ignoring fair use & public good

Legal and technical tools enabling a “Some Rights Reserved” model

Like “free software” or “open source” for content/media

But with more restrictive options

Media is more diverse and at least a decade(?) behind software

Six Mainstream Licenses

Lawyer Readable

Human Readable

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DRMfree “ DRM Voodo” by psd licensed under CC BY 2.0 http://flickr.com/photos/psd/1806247462/

In Innovation, Meta is Max “The max net-impact innovations, by far, have been meta-innovations, i.e., innovations that changed how fast other innovations accumulated.” Robin Hanson (Economist) http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/meta-is-max---i.html

“The max net-impact innovations, by far, have been meta-innovations, i.e., innovations that changed how fast other innovations accumulated.”

Robin Hanson (Economist)

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/meta-is-max---i.html

Collective Intelligence Meta innovation?

Meta innovation?

Commons Meta innovation for Collective Intelligence?

Meta innovation for Collective Intelligence?

$2.2 trillion Value of fair use in the U.S. Economy http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/publish/news/First-Ever_Economic_Study_Calculates_Dollar_Value_of.shtml also see http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7643

Value of fair use in the U.S. Economy

http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/publish/news/First-Ever_Economic_Study_Calculates_Dollar_Value_of.shtml also see http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7643

Cyber terrorism (Cyber terror war on) Privacy breaches Loss of Generativity Lock-in Surveillance DRM Censorship Suppression of innovation Electoral fraud

Threat categories Legitimate security issues Protectionism Politics and power Security theater and fear-based responses (driven by all of above, not just legitimate security issues)

Legitimate security issues

Protectionism

Politics and power

Security theater and fear-based responses (driven by all of above, not just legitimate security issues)

What digital freedoms needed for beneficial collective intelligence? Keep same rights online/digitally that we (should anyway) have offline/IRL Permit innovation and participation enabled by digital world even if not possible before (probably follows from above)

Keep same rights online/digitally that we (should anyway) have offline/IRL

Permit innovation and participation enabled by digital world even if not possible before (probably follows from above)

How building the commons (free software, free culture, and friends) helps

Security Data shows FLOSS is more secure Security through obscurity doesn’t work FLOSS encourages a heterogeneous computing environment Free software and free culture both allergic to DRM and other mechanisms that sacrifice security to other goals

Data shows FLOSS is more secure

Security through obscurity doesn’t work

FLOSS encourages a heterogeneous computing environment

Free software and free culture both allergic to DRM and other mechanisms that sacrifice security to other goals

Protectionism Peer production undermines policy arguments for protecting knowledge industries Free software and free culture both allergic to DRM

Peer production undermines policy arguments for protecting knowledge industries

Free software and free culture both allergic to DRM

Politics and power Free software and culture improve transparency ... and the ability of all to participate Peer production works against concentrated power — doesn’t require concentrated production structures and lowers barriers to entry

Free software and culture improve transparency

... and the ability of all to participate

Peer production works against concentrated power — doesn’t require concentrated production structures and lowers barriers to entry

Security theater and fear Access to facts mitigates fear and allows rational evaluation of responses Commons work against three previous threats that drive security theater and fear

Access to facts mitigates fear and allows rational evaluation of responses

Commons work against three previous threats that drive security theater and fear

Can the success of the (digital) commons alter how we view freedom and power generally?

“The gate that has held the movements for equalization of human beings strictly in a dilemma between ineffectiveness and violence has now been opened. The reason is that we have shifted to a zero marginal cost world. As steel is replaced by software, more and more of the value in society becomes non-rivalrous: it can be held by many without costing anybody more than if it is held by a few.” Eben Moglen

“The gate that has held the movements for equalization of human beings strictly in a dilemma between ineffectiveness and violence has now been opened. The reason is that we have shifted to a zero marginal cost world. As steel is replaced by software, more and more of the value in society becomes non-rivalrous: it can be held by many without costing anybody more than if it is held by a few.”

Eben Moglen

“If we don’t want to live in a jungle, we must change our attitudes. We must start sending the message that a good citizen is one who cooperates when appropriate, not one who is successful at taking from others.” Richard Stallman

“If we don’t want to live in a jungle, we must change our attitudes. We must start sending the message that a good citizen is one who cooperates when appropriate, not one who is successful at taking from others.”

Richard Stallman

i.e., we can form collective intelligences instead of forced collectives ... and still “change the world”

Building the commons is key to the future of collective intelligence Politicians and corporations are unimaginative ... they need to see solutions, or they react in fear A dominant commons makes many collective stupidity scenarios much less likely Beneficial collective intelligence needs universal access to culture, educational resources, research ... in machine-readable form

Politicians and corporations are unimaginative ... they need to see solutions, or they react in fear

A dominant commons makes many collective stupidity scenarios much less likely

Beneficial collective intelligence needs universal access to culture, educational resources, research ... in machine-readable form

Much less Meta ... 2 of the excellent bootstrap(?) tools CC uses and builds Semantic MediaWiki ... turn your MediaWiki into a database and database application platform RDFa ... bridging the Semantic Web and the Web we all use

Semantic MediaWiki ... turn your MediaWiki into a database and database application platform

RDFa ... bridging the Semantic Web and the Web we all use

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Link: http://creativecommons.org

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